Amen to that! I was able to raid some university store-rooms for chemicals and so had lots of chemisty-set fun growing up even in the 80s, but it just keeps getting harder and harder. It's nigh impossible for kids to get dangerous chemicals today, and our society is poorer for it.
It's not that hard if they've got access to an adult. I work for a chemical company, and I've bought stuff from VW&R, Fisher, etc. without any questions as to whether or not my company was actually a company.
Thanks to credit cards and on-line ordering, you can get almost anything. True, you'd probably have a hard time getting your hands on large volumes of truly dangerous stuff (you know, like fluorine gas), but you could easily get most of the chemicals you could find in old kits.
Uh, BTW, if anyone reports this to Uncle Ashcroft for potential terrorist activity, my name's George and I live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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...but this is ridiculous!
I wonder if it makes his belgian white beers, well, whiter.....
How about Compuglobalhypermegablack?
Amen to that! I was able to raid some university store-rooms for chemicals and so had lots of chemisty-set fun growing up even in the 80s, but it just keeps getting harder and harder. It's nigh impossible for kids to get dangerous chemicals today, and our society is poorer for it. It's not that hard if they've got access to an adult. I work for a chemical company, and I've bought stuff from VW&R, Fisher, etc. without any questions as to whether or not my company was actually a company. Thanks to credit cards and on-line ordering, you can get almost anything. True, you'd probably have a hard time getting your hands on large volumes of truly dangerous stuff (you know, like fluorine gas), but you could easily get most of the chemicals you could find in old kits. Uh, BTW, if anyone reports this to Uncle Ashcroft for potential terrorist activity, my name's George and I live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.